Various authors, Et Cetera, a Collector's Scrap-Book (1924)
“ The often permanent loss of much that is fine and admirable in literature because its authors, through death, or modesty, or lack of opportunity, have neglected to collect it within covers, always has seemed to me deplorable on a number of counts ”
Various authors, Et Cetera, a Collector's Scrap-Book (1924)
“ Of the first importance, I believe, are such uncollected masterpieces as Middleton's "The District Visitor" and Hearn's "Margarita Pareja," while the uncollected sketches of Stephen Crane and the poems of Dowson, Wilbur Underwood, Lord Dunsany, Saltus, Neil Lyons and Lionel Johnson are items of great attractiveness to the collecting fraternity. Indeed, among the esteemed writers of our day there are few unrepresented by some brief, forgotten bit of prose or verse. ”
